EAST HARTFORD, CT, – NOVEMBER 01: Federico Higuain #34 of Inter Miami CF looks for the pass in the second half of the Major League Soccer match against Toronto FC in Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field on November 01, 2020 in East Hartford, Connecticut. (Photo by Ira L. Black – Corbis/Getty Images)
Mikey Ambrose and Leandro González Pirez scored four minutes apart and Inter Miami clinched a playoff berth with a 2-1 over FC Cincinnati on Sunday.
Inter Miami (7-13-3) earned the No. 10 seed in the MLS Eastern Conference playoffs. It entered the day with a two-game losing streak.
Cincinnati (4-15-4) entered the match as the only team in the East to have been eliminated from the postseason.
Mikey Ambrose gathered an FC Cincinnati clearing attempt and found the back right corner of the net to put Inter Miami ahead 1-0 at the 19th minute.
At the 23rd, González Pirez scored on a header off a corner kick from Lewis Morgan.
Joseph-Claude Gyau scored at the 66th minute for FC Cincinnati.
